Simon Cockell, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Bioinformatics Support Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Research field: Biological Sciences - Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Data integration

Publications

Journal Article (4)
- Simon J Cockell, Jochen Weile, Phillip Lord et al. (2010) An integrated dataset for in silico drug discovery, 116. In Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics 7 (3).
  http://journal.imbio.de/article.php?a...
  
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- Kaveh Emami, Nicholas J Morris, Simon J Cockell et al. (2010) Changes in protein expression profiles between a low phytic acid rice ( Oryza sativa L. Ssp. japonica) line and its parental line: a proteomic and bioinformatic approach., 6912-22. In Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 58 (11).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf904082b
- Frank Gibson, Leigh Anderson, Gyorgy Babnigg et al. (2008) Guidelines for reporting the use of gel electrophoresis in proteomics., 863-4. In Nature biotechnology 26 (8).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt0808-863
- Simon J Cockell, Baldo Oliva, Richard M Jackson (2007) Structure-based evaluation of in silico predictions of protein–protein interactions using Comparative Docking, 573-581. In Bioinformatics 23 (5).
  http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals....

Awards and Grants

Aug 2010

JISCMRD (Knowledgeblog) View website

Biographical Information

I trained as a molecular biologist, studying signal transduction regulation in Drosophila melanogaster development during his Ph.D. at Leicester University. I made the move in Bioinformatics in 2004 by undertaking a Masters by Research (M.Res.) in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Leeds, supported by the BBSRC.

Graduating top of the class, with distinction, I moved to Newcastle University to join the nascent Bioinformatics Support Unit in September 2005. My main area of interest is the computational study of protein-protein interactions, and I am primarily responsible for supporting University researchers with protein and proteomics bioinformatics requirements.